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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was
a leap year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of
the 20th century,
and the 9th year of the 1940s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) inaugurated. ·
Railways
of Britain are nationalized to form British Railways. ·
The Constitution
of the Italian Republic goes into effect. ·
The
latest Constitution
of New Jersey goes into effect. ·
January 4 – Burma gains its
independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named
the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President
and U Nu its first Prime Minister. ·
Warner Brothers shows the first
color newsreel (Tournament of
Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl). ·
The
first Kinsey Report, Sexual
Behavior in the Human Male, is published in the United States. ·
January 7 – Kentucky Air
National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a
supposed UFO. ·
January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his
fast-unto-death in Delhi to stop
communal violence during the Partition of India. ·
January 17 – A truce is declared
between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java. ·
January 22 – British foreign
secretary Ernest Bevin proposes
the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France, and the Benelux countries to stand up against
the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is
signed March 17 as a consequence, a
predecessor to NATO. ·
January 26 – Teigin poison case: a man
masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch
of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is
later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed. ·
The Pakistan
Socialist Party is founded in Karachi. ·
DC-3 aircraft
crash at Los Gatos Creek, near Coalinga, California,
kills four US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a protest song
("Deportee
(Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)") by Woody Guthrie. ·
Assassination
of Mahatma Gandhi: Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is shot by Nathuram Godse in New Delhi. ·
Orville Wright of the pioneering
aviators the Wright Brothers dies in Dayton, Ohio. ·
1948 Winter Olympics open
in St. Moritz, Switzerland. ·
January 31 – The British crown colony of the Malayan Union, Penang and Malacca form the Federation of Malaya.[1] February[edit] ·
The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts. ·
Proclamation
of the Federation of Malaya. ·
February 4 – Ceylon (later known
as Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom
within the British
Commonwealth. ·
February 16 – Miranda, innermost of the large moons of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.[2] ·
February 18 – Éamon de Valera,
Irish head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition
coalition. John A. Costello is
appointed Taoiseach by
President Seán T. O'Kelly. ·
February 19 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia
Fighting for Freedom and Independenceconvenes in Calcutta. ·
February 21 – The United States stock car racing organization NASCAR is founded by Bill France, Sr. with other drivers.[3] ·
February 22 – The first of the Ben Yehuda
Street bombings in Jerusalem kills between 49 and 58
civilians and injures between 140 and 200. ·
February 25 – 1948
Czechoslovak coup d'état: Edvard Beneš, President of
Czechoslovakia, cedes control of the country to the Communist
Party, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February"
(Czech: Vítězný únor; Slovak: Víťazný Február) until November 1989. ·
Accra Riots: Riots take place in Accra, capital of the British colony
of Gold Coast,
when a peaceful protest march by ex-servicemen is broken up by police,
leaving several members of the group dead, among them Sergeant Adjetey, one
of the leaders. ·
The 2nd
Congress of the Communist Party of India convenes in Calcutta. March[edit] ·
March 8 – McCollum
v. Board of Education: The United States
Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public
schools violates the U.S.
Constitution. ·
March 12 – The Costa Rican Civil
War begins. ·
March 16 – The largest flood in the
history of Brampton, Ontario,
occurs.[4] ·
March 17 ·
Treaty of Brussels signed
by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom,
providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective
self-defence. ·
The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded
in California. ·
March 18 – The Round Table Conference
in The Hague, Netherlands for the preparation
of the decolonization process for Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba
presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an Independent
Country, under the souvereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's
first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th)
Member State of the future Dutch Commonwealth. ·
March 20 ·
Singapore holds its first elections. ·
Renowned
Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television
debut, conducting the NBC Symphony
Orchestra in an all-Wagner program in the United States. ·
The 20th Academy Awards ceremony
is held in Los Angeles. Gentleman's
Agreement wins the Academy
Award for Best Picture. April[edit] ·
April 1 – Physicists Ralph Asher Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow
paper about the Big Bang.[5] ·
April 3 ·
United
States President Harry S. Truman signs
the Marshall Plan,
which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. ·
Jeju Uprising – residents revolt
on Jeju island, South
Korea, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000. ·
Beethoven's
Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for
the first time in a series of concerts featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony
Orchestra in the United States. The chorus is conducted
by Robert Shaw. ·
April 5 – 1947–48
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nachshon;
beginning of the 1948 Palestinian
exodus. ·
April 7– The World Health
Organization is established by the United Nations. ·
April 9 ·
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's
assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further 10 years of
violence (La Violencia)
across Colombia. ·
The Deir Yassin massacre takes
place in British Mandatory Palestine. ·
April 13 – The Hadassah
medical convoy massacre takes place in British Mandatory Palestine. ·
April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is
founded as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC). ·
April 18 – Italian
general election, 1948:: The first democratic general election
with universal suffrage is
held in Italy. The Christian
Democracy party achieves a majority over the Popular
Democratic Front Communist-Socialist coalition. ·
April 19 ·
Burma joins the United Nations. ·
The American
Broadcasting Company (otherwise known as ABC) begins
television services, on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia (now WPVI-TV). ·
April 22 ·
Civil
War in Mandatory Palestine: Battle of Haifa –
The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captures Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army. ·
WTVR begins television services. WTVR
is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname
"The South's First Television station". ·
April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil
War ends. ·
April 30 – Organization
of American States (OAS) founded. ·
April 30 – The English-built Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam
Motor Show. May[edit] ·
May
– The RAND Corporation is
established as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis
institution in the United States. ·
May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes
its world premiere in London. ·
May 11 – Luigi Einaudi becomes President
of the Italian Republic. Israeli
Declaration of Independence, 1948 ·
May 14 – The Israeli
Declaration of Independence is made. David Ben-Gurion becomes the first
prime minister, a provisional position that will become formalized on
February 14, 1949. ·
May 15 ·
1948 Arab–Israeli
War: The British Mandate of
Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces
from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel and clash with Israeli forces. ·
The
murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men
in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.[6] ·
Australian
cricket team in England in 1948: The touring Australians set
an all-time first-class record
by scoring 721 runs in a day against Essex. ·
May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the
first President of Israel. ·
May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of
China officially convenes in Nanking. ·
May 22 – The Soviets launch Operation Vesna, the largest Lithuanian
deportation to Siberia. ·
May 25 – The United Church of Christ in
the Philippines (UCCP) is founded at Ellinwood Malate Church in Manila. ·
May 26 – The United States
Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently
establishes the Civil Air Patrol as
the auxiliary of the United States Air
Force. ·
May 28 – Daniel François
Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of
South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled
by F. W. de Klerk in 1994. ·
May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks,
obliterating Vanport, Oregon,
within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. June[edit] ·
June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope
is finished in California. ·
June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of
Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister) ·
June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into
space from White Sands, New Mexico. ·
June 15 – Chinese newspaper, Renmin
Ribao (People's Daily),
a first issue of published in Pingshan, Hebei Province, China.[citation needed] ·
June 16 ·
Three
armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the
plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board. ·
June 17 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United
Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel,
Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. ·
June 18 ·
Malayan Emergency:
A state of emergency is
declared in the Malayan Union due
to a communist insurgency. ·
LP record – Columbia Records introduced
its long playing 33⅓ rpm phonograph format. ·
June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the
remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. (to be
shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20,
1948). ·
June 21 ·
The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency
of the future Federal Republic of Germany. ·
The Manchester Baby becomes the first stored-program
computer to successfully execute a program. ·
June 22 ·
The
ship HMT Empire
Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean
immigrants to Tilbury near
London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain. ·
David Lean's Oliver Twist,
based on Charles Dickens's
famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S.
because of alleged antisemitism in
depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness. Airplane C-54 at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. ·
June 24 ·
Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins. ·
The
first World Health
Assembly of the World Health
Organization is held in Geneva. ·
June 26 ·
William Shockley files the original
patent for the grown-junction
transistor, the first bipolar
junction transistor. ·
The Berlin Airlift begins. ·
June 28 ·
The Cominform Resolution marks the
beginning of the Informbiro period
in Yugoslavia and
the Soviet/Yugoslav split. ·
The
6.8 Mw Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan. 3,769 dead, 22,203 injured. July[edit] ·
July 5 – The National Health
Service Acts are enacted in United Kingdom. ·
July 6 – The world's first Air
Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways
from Lympne to Le Touquet. ·
July 13 – The Coptic
Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Churches reach an agreement leading to the
promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by
the Patriarch of
Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna
Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops,
who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church. ·
July 15 ·
Attempted
assassination of Palmiro Togliatti,
general secretary of the Italian Communist
Party results in numerous strikes all over the country. ·
First
London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is
founded. ·
President Harry S. Truman issues the second
peacetime military draft in
the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft
occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt) ·
Eugene Dennis, William Z. Foster,
and ten other CPUSA leaders are arrested and charged
under the Alien Registration
Act ·
July 22 – The Dominion of
Newfoundland votes to join Canada after a referendum. ·
July 26 – U.S. President Truman
signs Executive Order 9981,
ending racial segregation in
the United States
Armed Forces. ·
July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion
at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. ·
July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin
in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics ·
July 31 ·
At
Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later
renamed John
F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated ·
Elizabeth Bentley appears
under subpoena before HUAC regarding
Communist espionage; implicates Whittaker Chambers August[edit] ·
August 1 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is
founded. ·
August 3 – Whittaker Chambers appears
under subpoena before HUAC and alleges that
several former U.S. Federal official were communists, including Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss ·
August 5 – Alger Hiss appears before HUAC to
deny the allegations of Whittaker Chambers ·
August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee
Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ·
August 12 – Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members
of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement
were shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West
Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri,
on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda
District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan. ·
August 13 – Harry Dexter White and Donald Hiss refute allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers before HUAC. ·
August 14 – 1948 Ashes series:
The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England
at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Holliesfor a duck; however, "The
Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0. ·
August 15 – The southern half of Korea
is established as the Republic of Korea
(South Korea). ·
August 17 – HUAC holds
a private session between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers ·
August 18 – Danube Commission created
by Belgrade Convention (enters into
force 11 May 1949). ·
August 20 – Lee Pressman, Nathan Witt, and John Abt, represented by Harold I. Cammer, plead the Fifth Amendment in response to
allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers before HUAC ·
August 23 – The World Council
of Churches is established. ·
August 24 – The first meeting of the
charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.[7] ·
August 25 – HUAC holds
its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation
Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss ·
August 27 – Whittaker Chambers states
that Alger Hiss was
a communist on Meet the Press radio September[edit] ·
September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. ·
September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister
of France. ·
September 6 – Juliana is
formally inaugurated to
succeed her mother as queen regnant of the Netherlands. ·
September 9 – The northern half of
Korea is formally declared the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea),
with Kim Il-sung as
prime minister. ·
September 11 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
founder and first Governor-General
of Pakistan, dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns
the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nationwide. ·
September 13–18 – Indian
annexation of Hyderabad ("Operation Polo"):
The princely state of Hyderabad is
invaded by the Indian Armed Forces in
a "police action"
in the aftermath of Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders
his state which is amalgamated into the newly-independent Dominion of India;
thousands are killed as a result of this event. ·
September 13 – Margaret Chase Smith is
elected United States Senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both
the U.S. House
Of Representatives and the United States Senate. ·
September 17 – Lehi members, also known as the Stern
Gang, assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator in
Palestine, in Jerusalem. ·
September 18 – Inaugural motor race
at Goodwood Circuit,
West Sussex, England. ·
September 20 – Establishment of the
city of Rabwah in Pakistan. ·
September 27 – Alger Hiss files a slander suit
against Whittaker Chambers for
his August 27 radio statement in the United States. ·
September 29 – Laurence Olivier's film of Hamlet opens
in the US. October[edit] ·
October 5 – The International Union for
the Protection of Nature (later known as International Union for the Conservation of Nature,
IUCN) is established in Fontainebleau, France. ·
October 6 – 1948 Ashgabat
earthquake: A 7.3 Ms earthquake
near Ashgabat in Soviet Turkmenistan kills
10,000–110,000. ·
October 10 – R-1 missile on test becomes the
first Soviet launch
to enter space. ·
October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair in
Chicago, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded. ·
October 20 – Brandeis University is
formally founded in Massachusetts. ·
October 26 – Donora Smog of 1948:
A killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania. ·
October 29 – 1948 Arab–Israeli
War: Massacres of Palestinian Arab villagers by the Israel Defense
Forces: ·
Al-Dawayima massacre:
Between 30 and 145 killed. ·
Safsaf massacre: At least 52 killed. November[edit] ·
Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other CPUSA leaders begins in New York City. ·
Athenagoras
I is elected 268th Ecumenical
Patriarch of Constantinople. ·
November 2 – United
States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats
Republican Thomas E. Dewey,
"Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, and Progressive
party's Henry A. Wallace ·
November 12 – In Tokyo, an
international war crimes tribunal
sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death,
including General Hideki Tojo, for
their roles in World War II. ·
November 15 – Louis Stephen
St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister. ·
Operation
Magic Carpet to
transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins. ·
The University
of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia. ·
Mohammad Reza
Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former
Princess Fawzia of
Egypt. ·
Whittaker Chambers produces
secret government papers handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss during pretrial examination. ·
November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers
the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously,
near Lake Te Anau, New
Zealand. ·
November 24 – In Venezuela,
president Rómulo Gallegos is
ousted by a military junta. ·
November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat
the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7
before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium to win their
first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football. December[edit] ·
December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes
the army in Costa Rica, making
it the first country in history to do so. ·
December 2 – The United States House
Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas and retrieves the
"Pumpkin Papers" from the farm of Whittaker Chambers. ·
December 6 – Richard Nixon displays microfilm from
the "Pumpkin Papers" to the press. ·
December 9 – The United
Nations General Assembly adopts the Genocide Convention. ·
December 10 – The United Nations
General Assembly adopts the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. ·
December 11–12 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre: Scots Guards shoot 24 Chinese villagers in Malaya. ·
December 15 – The United
States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss on two counts of perjury. ·
December 17 – The Finnish
Security Police is established to remove communist
leadership from its predecessor, the State Police. ·
December 19 – In the American National
Football League, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat
the Chicago Cardinals 7–0
to win the championship. ·
Indonesian
National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the
temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia. ·
Laurence Duggan falls to his death from
the 16th storey window of his Manhattan office. ·
December 23 – Seven Japanese military
and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military
Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at
Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ·
The
last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea. ·
Cardinal József Mindszenty is
arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy. ·
December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member
assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi
Nokrashi. ·
December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first
of 1,077 performances in New York City. ·
December 31 – Arab-Israeli War:
Israeli troops drive Egyptians from the Negev. Date unknown[edit] ·
Casimir effect predicted by Dutch
physicist Hendrik Casimir. ·
The Fresh Kills Landfill,
the world's largest, opens on Staten Island,
New York. ·
The
Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia. ·
The
Slovak city Gúta is renamed Kolárovo. ·
The
Tunnel of Vielha is opened in the Aran Valley, Spanish Pyrenees. ·
Last
recorded sighting of the Caspian tiger in Kazakhstan. ·
A
pack of wolves kills about 40 children in Darovskoy District,
in Russia.[8] ·
Charles
Warrell creates the first I-Spy books in the United Kingdom. ·
Rev. W. Awdry's third book, James the Red Engine,
is published in the United Kingdom. ·
Last
edition of the Index
Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican. ·
Inspired
by World War II fighter planes, Cadillac introduces the first
automobile to sport tailfins. ·
The
inaugural 6 Hours of
Watkins Glen sports car endurance race is held in the United
States. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Judith Miller,
American journalist ·
Joyce Wadler, American writer and memoirist ·
Deborah Watling, English actress (d. 2017) ·
Wally Foreman, Australian media icon
(d. 2006) ·
Ted Lange, American actor and director ·
Kenny Loggins, American rock singer ·
Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor ·
Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist ·
Teresa Graves, American actress and comedian
(d. 2002) ·
Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist ·
Hiroshi Wajima, Japanese sumo wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
Larry Harvey, American co-founder of Burning Man (d. 2018) ·
Kenny Allen,
English footballer ·
Anthony Andrews, English actor ·
T Bone Burnett, American record producer and
musician ·
Muhriz of
Negeri Sembilan, Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan ·
Carl Weathers, American actor and football
player ·
January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician
(d. 1977) ·
John Carpenter, American film director,
producer, screenwriter and composer ·
Gregor Gysi, German politician ·
Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player ·
Tsuneo Horiuchi, Japanese baseball pitcher
and manager ·
January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister
of Iceland ·
January 18 – M. C. Gainey, American actor ·
Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and
Canadian Ambassador ·
Michael J. Jackson,
English actor ·
Katharine Holabird,
American writer ·
Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician ·
January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Russian dancer ·
January 28 – Charles
Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia ·
January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor ·
January 30 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican
Army member ·
Paul Jabara, American actor, singer and
songwriter (d. 1992) ·
Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician February[edit] ·
February 1 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (d. 2004) ·
Ina Garten, American cooking author ·
Roger Williamson, British race car driver
(d. 1973) ·
Carlos Filipe
Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Henning Mankell, Swedish crime novelist
(d. 2015) ·
Alice Cooper, American hard rock singer and
musician ·
Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal ·
Sven-Göran Eriksson,
Swedish football manager ·
Christopher Guest,
American actor, screenwriter, director and composer ·
Barbara Hershey, American actress ·
Tom Wilkinson, English actor ·
February 7 – Jimmy Greenspoon, American keyboardist and
composer (Three Dog Night)
(d. 2015) ·
Greg Stafford, American game designer and
publisher (d. 2018) ·
David Hayman, Scottish film, television and
stage actor and director ·
Ûssarĸak
K'ujaukitsoĸ, Greenlandic Inuit politician and human rights
activist (d. 2018) ·
John Magnier, Irish businessman and
thoroughbred racehorse breeder ·
February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian ·
February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and
author ·
February 13 – Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American film
actress ·
Jackie Martling, American comedian and radio
personality ·
Wally Tax, Dutch musician (d. 2005) ·
Raymond Teller,
American illusionist and magician, one half of the duo Penn & Teller ·
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israeli physician and
autoimmunity researcher ·
György Cserhalmi,
Hungarian actor ·
José José, Mexican singer and actor ·
February 18 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress ·
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and author
(d. 2002) ·
Tony Iommi, English heavy metal guitarist ·
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill,
American model and actress ·
John Ashton,
American actor ·
Leslie H. Sabo Jr.,
American Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1970) ·
Jayalalithaa, Indian politician and film
actress (d. 2016) ·
Walter Smith, Scottish football manager ·
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor ·
Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter
and composer ·
Kjell Isaksson, Swedish pole vaulter ·
Bernadette Peters,
American actress and singer ·
Mercedes Ruehl, American actress ·
Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party
(1992–) and Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998) ·
Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor and poet
(d. 2018) ·
Ken Foree, American actor ·
Henry Small,
American-born Canadian singer March[edit] ·
March 2 ·
R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of
electronic commerce ·
Rory Gallagher, Irish musician (d. 1995) ·
Jeff Kennett, Australian politician ·
March 4 ·
Lindy Chamberlain,
Australian author ·
James Ellroy, American writer ·
Tom Grieve, American baseball player ·
Leron Lee, American baseball player ·
Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes) (d. 2015) ·
Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer ·
Brian Cummings, American voice actor ·
March 5 ·
Eddy Grant, Guyanese British singer and
musician ·
Elaine Paige, English singer and actress ·
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford,
American actress ·
March 8 – Sinta Nuriyah, 4th First Lady of
Indonesia, wife of Abdurrahman Wahid ·
March 9 ·
László Lovász,
Hungarian mathematician ·
Jeffrey Osborne, American singer ·
March 11 – Dominique Sanda, French actress ·
March 12 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter ·
March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian ·
March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de
Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003) ·
March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer ·
March 20 ·
John de Lancie, American actor ·
Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player ·
Helene Vannari, Estonian actress ·
March 22 ·
Inri Cristo, Brazilian educator who claims
to be Jesus Christ reincarnated ·
Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist ·
Andrew Lloyd Webber,
English composer ·
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress ·
March 26 ·
Nash the Slash, born James Jeffrey Plewman,
Canadian musician (d. 2014) ·
Steven Tyler, American singer-songwriter (Aerosmith) ·
March 28 ·
Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist ·
Dennis Unkovic, American author ·
Dianne Wiest, American actress ·
March 29 ·
Mike Heideman, American basketball coach
(d. 2018) ·
Bud Cort, American actor ·
March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix ·
March 31 ·
Al Gore, American environmentalist and
politician, 45th Vice
President of the United States under Bill Clinton, and 2000 Democratic
nominee for president ·
Rhea Perlman, American actress April[edit] ·
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and actor ·
April 2 ·
Bob Lienhard, American basketball player
(d. 2018) ·
Roald Als, Danish cartoonist ·
April 3 – Carlos Salinas
de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician and 53rd President of Mexico ·
April 4 ·
Squire Parsons, American gospel
singer/songwriter ·
Dan Simmons, American fantasy and science
fiction author ·
April 5 – Neil Portnow, President of The Recording Academy (NARAS). ·
April 7 – John Oates, American rock singer and
guitarist (Hall & Oates) ·
April 10 – Fauzi Bowo, Indonesian politician, diplomat
and former governor of Jakarta ·
April 12 ·
Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter
(d. 2008) ·
Don Fernando, director and actor of
pornographic films ·
Joschka Fischer German politician ·
Marcello Lippi, Italian football player and
manager ·
April 13 ·
Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations
of the Republic of Korea
Navy ·
Mikhail Shufutinsky,
Soviet and Russian singer, actor, TV presenter ·
April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003) ·
April 16 ·
Ammar El Sherei, Egyptian music icon and
celebrity (d. 2012) ·
Kazuyuki Sogabe, Japanese voice actor
(d. 2006) ·
April 17 ·
Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer,
pianist and keyboardist ·
Peter Jenni, Swiss experimental particle
physicist ·
April 21 – Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist (after
whom Flammer syndrome is
named) ·
April 27 ·
Amrit Kumar Bohara,
Nepalese politician ·
Frank Abagnale, American con man and
imposter ·
Si Robertson, American reality star ·
April 28 ·
Terry Pratchett, English comic fantasy and
science fiction author (d. 2015) ·
Marcia Strassman, American actress and
singer (d. 2014) ·
April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001) May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer ·
Larry Gatlin, American singer-songwriter ·
May 3 ·
William H.
Miller, historian ·
Chris Mulkey, American actor ·
May 4 ·
Jan Kantůrek, Czech translator
(d. 2018) ·
Tanya Falan, American singer ·
King George Tupou V of Tongo (d. 2012) ·
May 5 ·
Joe Esposito,
American singer-songwriter ·
Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor ·
Bill Ward,
English rock drummer ·
May 8 ·
Dame Felicity Lott, English soprano ·
Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer ·
May 9 ·
Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist
and author ·
Calvin Murphy, American basketball player
and analyst ·
May 11 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician ·
May 12 ·
Steve Winwood, English rock singer ·
Lindsay Crouse, American actress ·
May 14 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-born English cricket
coach (d. 2007) ·
May 15 ·
Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional
baseball pitcher ·
Brian Eno, English musician and record
producer ·
May 16 – Jesper Christensen,
Danish actor ·
May 17 – Penny DeHaven, American country singer
(d. 2014) ·
May 18 – Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer ·
May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress ·
May 20 – Tesshō Genda, Japanese voice actor ·
May 21 ·
D'Jamin Bartlett,
American musical theatre actress ·
Elizabeth Buchan, English writer ·
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor ·
Leo Sayer, English rock musician ·
May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions) ·
May 26 ·
Dayle Haddon, Canadian model and actress ·
Stevie Nicks, American rock singer and
songwriter ·
May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant ·
May 29 – Michael Berkeley, English composer ·
May 31 ·
Svetlana Alexievich,
Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize laureate ·
John Bonham, English rock drummer of Led Zeppelin (d. 1980) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Tom Sneva, American race car driver
and Indianapolis 500 winner ·
June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor ·
June 4 ·
Bob Champion, English jump jockey ·
David Haskell, American actor (d. 2000) ·
June 6 – Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan) ·
June 8 ·
Jürgen von der Lippe,
German television presenter, actor and comedian ·
Jad Azkoul, Lebanese-American classical
guitarist ·
June 9 ·
Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician ·
Gary Thorne, American play-by-play announcer ·
June 11 – Dave Cash,
American baseball player ·
June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and
scout (d. 2001) ·
June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author ·
June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter ·
June 17 – Dave Concepción,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
June 19 ·
Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974) ·
Lea Laven, Finnish singer ·
Phylicia Rashad, American actress ·
June 20 ·
Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (d. 2018) ·
Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru ·
June 21 ·
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer ·
Jovan
Aćimović, Serbian football player ·
Raffaello Martinelli,
Italian prelate ·
Philippe Sarde, French film composer ·
Andrzej Sapkowski,
Polish writer ·
Wolfgang Seel, German football player ·
Greg Hyder, American professional basketball
player ·
June 22 ·
Madeleine Meilleur,
Canadian politician ·
Takashi Sasano, Japanese actor ·
Shōhaku Okumura,
Japanese Soto Zen ·
Peter Prijdekker, Dutch swimmer ·
Sue Roberts, American professional golfer ·
Todd Rundgren, American rock singer and
record producer ·
Curtis
Johnson, American football cornerback ·
Franciszek Smuda, Polish football coach ·
Panagiotis Xanthakos,
Greek sports shoote ·
Colin Waldron, English football defender ·
June 23 ·
Larry Coker, American football player and
coach ·
Jim Heacock, American defensive coordinator ·
Luther Kent, American blues singer ·
Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States ·
June 24 ·
Stephen
Martin, Australian politician, senior academic and rugby league
referee ·
Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player ·
Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda ·
Dave Orchard, South African cricketer ·
Eigil Sørensen,
Danish cyclist ·
Jürgen Stars, German footballer ·
Jenny Wood, Zimbabwean swimmer ·
June 25 ·
Kenn George, American businessman ·
Michael Lembeck, American actor, television
and film director ·
Tom Rideout, Canadian politician ·
June 26 ·
David Vaughan,
Welsh professional golfer ·
John Pratt,
English professional footballer ·
Pablo Anaya Rivera,
Mexican politician ·
June 27 ·
Vennira Aadai
Nirmala, Tamil actress ·
Michael J. Barrett,
Guamanian politician ·
Camile Baudoin, American rock guitarist ·
June 28 ·
Deborah Moggach, English writer ·
Kathy Bates, American actress ·
Jimmy
Thomson, Scottish professional footballer ·
Brian Rowan, Scottish professional
footballer ·
June 29 ·
Helge Karlsen, Norwegian football player ·
Fred Grandy, American actor and politician ·
Usha
Prashar, Baroness Prashar, crossbench member of the House of Lords ·
Leo Burke, Canadian professional wrestler ·
Vic Brooks, English cricketer ·
Danny Adcock, Australian actor ·
June 30 ·
Alice Wong, Canadian politician ·
Dag Fornæss, Norwegian speed skater ·
Peter Rossborough,
English rugby union international ·
Galarrwuy Yunupingu,
Australian Indigenous community ·
Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of
state-run Russian Railways company ·
Raymond Leo Burke,
American cardinal prelate July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Ever Hugo Almeida,
Paraguayan footballer ·
John Ford,
English-born rock musician (Strawbs), writer of
"Part of the Union" ·
Michael McGimpsey,
Northern Ireland politician ·
July 2 ·
Mario Villanueva, Mexican politician ·
Saul Rubinek, German-Canadian character
actor, director, producer and playwright ·
July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist ·
July 4 ·
René Arnoux, French racing driver ·
Louis Raphaël I Sako,
Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church ·
Ed Armbrister, Bahamian outfielder in Major
League Baseball ·
Nazmul Hussain, Indian first-class cricketer ·
Jeremy Spencer, British musician ·
July 5 ·
Tony DeMeo, American football coach and
player ·
Dave Lemonds, American baseball player ·
Salomon Juan
Marcos Issa, Mexican politician ·
Lojze Peterle, Slovenian politician ·
July 6 ·
Nathalie Baye, French film, television and
stage actress ·
Jeff Webb,
American professional basketball player ·
Arnaldo Baptista, Brazilian rock musician
and composer ·
Brad Park, Canadian NHL Defenseman ·
Sid Smith,
American football offensive lineman ·
Eiko Segawa, Japanese female enka singer and
actress ·
Jan van der Veen, Dutch professional
association football player ·
July 7 ·
Jerry Sherk, American football defensive
tackle ·
Jean LeClerc,
Québécois actor ·
Jean-Marie Colombani,
French journalist ·
Tan Lee Meng, Singaporean jurist ·
Stuart Varney, British-American economic
consultant ·
Luis Estrada,
Mexican football league forward and an Olympian ·
July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer ·
July 10 ·
Theo Bücker, German football manager and a
player ·
Rich Hand, American professional baseball
player ·
Mick Coop, English professional football
right back ·
July 12 ·
Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Richard Simmons, American television
personality and fitness expert ·
July 13 ·
Don Sweet, Canadian star football kicker ·
Alf Hansen, Norwegian rower ·
Robert A. Underwood,
Guamanian politician and educator ·
July 14 – Goodwill
Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king ·
July 15 ·
Richard
Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007) ·
Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015) ·
July 16 ·
Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer, actor and
musician ·
Rita Barberá, Spanish politician, Mayor of
Valencia (d. 2016) ·
Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist ·
Jeff Van Wagenen, American professional
golfer ·
Lars Lagerbäck,
Swedish football manager and player ·
July 17 ·
Alan Sieler, Australian cricketer ·
Doug Berry,
American Canadian football coach ·
July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
July 20 ·
Muse Watson, American actor ·
Maroun Elias
Nimeh Lahham, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Tunis ·
July 21 ·
Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger,
comedian and actor ·
Ed Hinton,
American sportswriter ·
Cat Stevens, born Steven Georgiou, later
known as Yusuf Islam, British singer, musician ·
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist ·
Teruzane Utada, Japanese music executive
producer and attendant ·
Mikhail
Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian and writer ·
Snooty, male Florida manatee (d. 2017) ·
July 22 ·
Susan Eloise Hinton,
American author ·
Otto Waalkes, German comedian and actor ·
July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician ·
July 25 ·
Steve Goodman, American Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter
(d. 1984) ·
Tony Cline, American football player
(d. 2018) ·
July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater ·
July 28 ·
Gerald Casale, American director and singer
(Devo) ·
Sally Struthers, American actress and
spokeswoman ·
July 30 ·
Jean Reno, French actor ·
Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and
musician (d. 2010) ·
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore,
English academic sociologist and cultural theorist August[edit] ·
August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and
musician (d. 2009) ·
August 2 ·
Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host
and author ·
Bob Rae, Canadian politician ·
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin,
Prime Minister of France ·
August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of
Tanzania ·
August 13 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano ·
August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor ·
August 15 – George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula
One engineer ·
August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017) ·
Robert
Hughes, Australian actor ·
Tipper Gore, Second
Lady of the United States ·
John Noble, Australian actor ·
Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin) ·
Barbara Allen Rainey (born
Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed
forces (d. 1982) ·
August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet and Russian physicist ·
Jean Michel Jarre,
French electronic musician ·
Sauli Niinisto, Finnish politician,
12th President of Finland ·
Kim Sung-il,
Chief of Staff of the Republic of
Korea Air Force ·
Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and
politician ·
August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor ·
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional
wrestler ·
Lewis Black, American comedian ·
Fred Hampton, American activist (d. 1969) ·
Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, Professor ·
Cyril Jordan, American musician ·
Holger Osieck, German football manager September[edit] ·
September 1 – James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014) ·
Christa McAuliffe,
American teacher and astronaut (d. 1986) ·
Nate Archibald, American basketball player ·
Terry Bradshaw, American football player and
sportscaster ·
Don Brewer, American drummer (Grand Funk Railroad) ·
Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president (d. 2008) ·
Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer ·
Michael Berryman, American actor ·
September 5 – Benita
Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician ·
September 7 – Susan Blakely, American actress ·
September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler ·
Judy Geeson, English actress ·
Bob Lanier,
American basketball player ·
Margaret Trudeau, born Margaret Sinclair,
wife and mother of Prime Ministers of Canada ·
Charlie Waters, American football player ·
September 11 – John Martyn, born Iain McGeachy, British
folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009) ·
Nell Carter, American singer and actress
(d. 2003) ·
Sitiveni Rabuka, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji ·
September 16 – Ron Blair, American bassist (Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers) ·
September 17 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003) ·
Jeremy Irons, English actor ·
Nadezhda Tkachenko, Soviet pentathlete ·
Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio
host ·
George R. R. Martin,
American speculative fiction author ·
Denis
Burke, Australian politician ·
Mark Phillips, army captain and equestrian,
first husband of Anne, Princess Royal ·
Jim Byrnes,
American voice actor, blues musician and actor ·
September 23 – José Lavat, Mexican voice actor (d. 2018) ·
September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian
(d. 1998) ·
Cäcilia Rentmeister,
German art historian and gender researcher ·
Vladimir
Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch ·
Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman and
murder victim (d. 1995) ·
Olivia Newton-John,
English-born Australian singer and actress ·
Michele Dotrice, English actress ·
A Martinez, American actor and singer ·
Mark Farner, American rock guitarist and
singer (Grand Funk Railroad) ·
Bryant Gumbel, African-American television
broadcaster ·
Theo Jörgensmann,
German jazz clarinetist ·
Burton Richardson,
American game show announcer October[edit] ·
October 1 – Sir Peter Blake,
New Zealand yachtsman (k. 2001) ·
Avery Brooks, American actor and musician ·
Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model
(d. 1998) ·
Chris LeDoux, American singer and rodeo star
(d. 2005) ·
Donna Karan, American fashion designer ·
Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer ·
Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef,
restaurateur, author, and television personality ·
October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician ·
Stephen Rucker, American composer ·
Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist ·
Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004) ·
Baldwin Spencer, 3rd Prime
Minister of Antigua and Barbuda ·
Jackson Browne, American rock musician ·
Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet and
novelist ·
Oliver Hart,
English-born economist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
Margie Alexander, American gospel and soul
singer (d. 2013) ·
Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer ·
John Ford Coley, American rock musician ·
Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997) ·
Ted Poe, American politician ·
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007) ·
David Ruprecht, American actor and writer (Supermarket
Sweep) ·
Renato Corona, Filipino jurist and lawyer
(d. 2016) ·
Chris de Burgh, born Christopher Davison,
Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer-songwriter ·
October 16 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach ·
Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007) ·
Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (d. 2018) ·
Akira Kushida, Japanese singer ·
George Wendt, American actor ·
October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher ·
Ntozake Shange, American playwright and poet
(d. 2018) ·
October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) ·
Tom Everett, American actor ·
Allen Vigneron, Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Detroit ·
Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin
of Gerald Ford ·
Debbie Macomber, American author ·
October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British
businessman ·
Dave Cowens, American basketball player and
coach ·
Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach ·
October 26 – Toby Harrah, American baseball player ·
October 28 – Telma Hopkins, American actress and singer ·
October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress ·
October 30 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor, satirist,
and comedian November[edit] ·
November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress ·
November 3 – Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie,
Scottish singer and actress ·
Delia Casanova, Mexican actress ·
Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali ·
Charles Bradley,
American singer (d. 2017) ·
Bob Barr, American politician ·
Dallas Holm, American Christian musician ·
Zacharias Jimenez,
Filipino Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018) ·
Khalid Ibrahim Khan,
Pakistani politician (d. 2018) ·
William Daniel
Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist and singer (The Eagles) (d. 2016) ·
November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor and director ·
Viktor Matviyenko,
Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2018) ·
Luiz Felipe Scolari,
Brazilian football player and manager ·
November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli,
American actor (d. 2005) ·
Skip Campbell, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Hassan Rouhani, 7th President of Iran ·
Richard Roberts,
American evangelist and son of Oral Roberts ·
Humayun Ahmed, Bengali-language writer. ·
Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician ·
Charles, Prince
of Wales, born Prince Charles of Edinburgh, heir apparent to the
British throne and son of Elizabeth II (at this time Duchess of
Edinburgh) and The Duke
of Edinburgh ·
Robert Ginty, American actor and director
(d. 2009) ·
Dee Wallace, American actress ·
November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and
actor (d. 2007) ·
Chi Coltrane, American musician ·
Ken James,
Australian actor ·
Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer ·
Mate Parlov, Yugoslav Olympic boxer
(d. 2008) ·
November 17 – Howard Dean, American politician ·
November 19 – Rance Allen, American gospel singer and
preacher ·
Harlee McBride, American actress ·
John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
and National Security Advisor ·
Barbara Hendricks,
American singer ·
Richard Masur, American actor, director;
president of Screen Actors Guild ·
November 21 – Michel Suleiman, President of Lebanon ·
Dominique-France
Picard, also known as Princess Fadila of Egypt, wife of King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan ·
Ron Bouchard, American NASCAR driver
(d. 2015) ·
Gabriele Seyfert, East German figure skater ·
November 24 – Joe Howard,
American actor ·
November 25 – Antoine Sfeir, Franco-Lebanese journalist
and a professor (d. 2018) ·
November 26 – Elizabeth Blackburn,
Australian-American biologist and winner of Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
November 27 – James Avery,
American actor (d. 2013) ·
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland,
Polish director and screenwriter December[edit] ·
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
American writer ·
Toninho Horta, Brazilian singer and musician ·
Christine Westermann,
German television and radio host, journalist and author ·
Rick Cua, American singer and evangelist ·
Ozzy Osbourne, English singer (Black Sabbath) ·
Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion ·
Marius
Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician ·
JoBeth Williams, American actress and
director ·
Gary Morris, American country singer and
actor ·
Tony Thomas,
American television producer ·
Mads Vinding, Danish bassist ·
December 10 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine
Liberation Front (d. 2004) ·
December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer ·
December 12 – Marcelo Rebelo de
Sousa, 20th President of
Portugal ·
Lillian Board, South African-born English
Olympic athlete (d. 1970) ·
Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist and
singer ·
David O'List, English rock guitarist ·
Lester Bangs, American music journalist
(d. 1982) ·
Kim Beazley, Australian politician ·
December 19 – Ken Brown,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
December 20 – Alan Parsons, English songwriter, musician
and record producer ·
Samuel L. Jackson,
African-American actor and film producer ·
Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and
cabaret artist ·
Noel Edmonds, English TV presenter and DJ ·
Flip Mark, American child actor ·
Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003) ·
December 23 – Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer,
educator, author and music journalist ·
Queen Alia (d. 1977) ·
Barbara Mandrell, American country singer ·
Ronnie Caldwell, American soul music and rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967) ·
Gérard Depardieu,
French actor ·
Dick Siegel, American songwriter ·
Mary Weiss, American singer (The Shangri-Las) ·
December 29 – Peter
Robinson, Northern Ireland First Minister ·
Stephen Cleobury, English composer and
conductor ·
Joe Dallesandro, American model and actor ·
Sandy Jardine, Scottish professional
footballer playing for Rangers and Hearts and representing Scotland (d. 2014) ·
Donna Summer, African-American singer and
actress (d. 2012) Date unknown[edit] ·
Archana
Bhattacharyya, Indian physicist ·
Miguel Cabrera
Cabrera, Spanish architect and politician ·
Vicatan, born Vicente Doria Catan Jr.,
Filipino comic book artist (d. 2004) ·
Gudo Hoegel, German actor and voice actor ·
Phalon Jones, American soul music and rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967) ·
John Blair Moore, American comic book artist ·
Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician ·
Judy Nylon, American artist and musician ·
Edward Rutherfurd,
born Francis Edward Wintle, English novelist Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Edna May, American actress (b. 1878) ·
January 2 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893) ·
January 4 – Anna Kallina, Austrian actress (b. 1874) ·
January 5 – Mary Dimmick
Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858) ·
Charles C.
Wilson, American actor (b. 1894) ·
Maria de Maeztu
Whitney, Spanish educator and feminist (b. 1882) ·
Charles Magnusson,
Swedish producer and screenwriter (b. 1878) ·
Kurt Schwitters, German artist (b. 1887) ·
Edward Stanley Kellogg,
16th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1870) ·
January 12 – Herbert Allen Farmer,
American criminal (b. 1891) ·
January 19 – Tony Garnier,
French architect (b. 1869) ·
Eliza Moore, last person born into slavery
in the United States (b. 1843) ·
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,
Italian composer (b. 1876) ·
Bill Cody,
American actor (b. 1891) ·
Giuseppe Giaccardo,
Italian Roman Catholic priest
and blessed (b. 1896) ·
Maria Mandl, Austrian criminal (b. 1912) ·
January 26 – Georg Bruchmüller,
influential German artillery officer (b. 1863) ·
January 28 – Anna Maria Gove, American physician
(b. 1867) ·
January 29 – King Tomislav II of
Croatia (b. 1900) ·
Nigel De Brulier, British actor (b. 1877) ·
Sir Arthur
Coningham, British air force air marshal (disappeared) (b. 1895) ·
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian
independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869) ·
Herb Pennock, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1894) ·
Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the
airplane (b. 1871) ·
January 31 – John T. Daniels, American Coast Guardsman,
took the Wright brothers first
flight photograph (b. 1873) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi,
Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878) ·
February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) ·
February 3 – Laura Wheeler Waring,
African-American painter, known for Harlem Renaissance portraits
(b. 1887) ·
February 4 – Otto Praeger, American postal official who
implemented U.S. Airmail (b. 1871) ·
February 8 – Samuel P. Bush, American businessman and
industrialist (b. 1863) ·
Burns Mantle, American theatre critic
(b. 1873) ·
Karl Valentin, German actor (b. 1882) ·
Sergei Eisenstein,
Soviet film director (b. 1898) ·
Isaac Isaacs, 9th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1855) ·
February 12 – Theodor Caspari, Norwegian poet, novelist,
writer, literary critic and teacher (b. 1853) ·
February 14 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1876) ·
February 15 – Subhadra Kumari
Chauhan, Indian poet (b. 1904) ·
February 17 – Enrique Finochietto,
Argentine academic, physician and inventor (b. 1881) ·
February 18 – Renato Balestrero,
Italian racecar driver (b. 1898) ·
February 23 – John Robert Gregg,
Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866) ·
Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan politician,
soldier and architect, 27th President of Uruguay,
leader of World War II (b. 1884) ·
Alexander du Toit,
South African geologist (b. 1878) ·
Felix Krueger, German psychologist (b. 1874) ·
Juan Esteban Montero,
Chilean political figure and 20th President of Chile (b. 1879) ·
Charles
Gifford, New Zealand astronomer, explorer and teacher (b. 1861) ·
Patriarch
Nicodim of Romania (b. 1864) ·
February 28 – Camila Quiroga, Argentine actress (b. 1891) March[edit] Blessed Piero Folli ·
March 1 – Gabriel Brunet
de Sairigné, French general (b. 1913) ·
March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and
director (b. 1896) ·
March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr.,
American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914) ·
March 8 – Piero Folli, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1881) ·
March 10 ·
Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900) ·
Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of
Czechoslovakia (b. 1886) ·
March 14 ·
Giuseppina Catanea,
Italian Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1894) ·
Senge Motomaro, Japanese poet (b. 1888) ·
March 17 – Paul Dupuy, French historian and biographer
(b. 1856) ·
March 23 – Kōzō
Satō, Japanese admiral (b. 1871) ·
March 24 ·
Nikolai Berdyaev, Soviet religious leader
and political philosopher (b. 1874) ·
Giovanni Cuomo, Italian politician, lawyer
and teacher (b. 1874) ·
Paolo Thaon di Revel,
former admiral of the Royal Italian Navy (b. 1859) ·
Sabbas of Kalymnos,
Greek Orthodox priest and
saint (b. 1862) ·
March 30 – Giovanni Ceirano, Italian industrialist and
automotive pioneer (b. 1865) ·
March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist and
author (b. 1885) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Biagio Biagetti, Italian painter (b. 1877) ·
Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as
"The Great Master" (b. 1858) ·
April 5 – Angelo Joseph Rossi,
American political figure and Mayor of San
Francisco (b. 1878) ·
April 7 – Isabel Andreu de
Aguilar, Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist and
activist (b. 1887) ·
April 8 – Abd al-Qadir
al-Husayni, Palestinian Arab nationalist (b. 1907) ·
April 9 ·
George
Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872) ·
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán,
Colombian politician (assassinated) (b. 1903) ·
April 15 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino statesman, 5th President of
the Philippines (b. 1892) ·
April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki,
Japanese admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1868) ·
April 19 – Mikhail
Rostovtsev, Soviet actor (b. 1872) ·
April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, Japanese admiral and
politician, 37th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1880) ·
April 21 – Carlos López
Buchardo, Argentine composer (b. 1881) ·
April 22 – Prosper Montagné,
French chef and author (b. 1865) ·
April 23 – Prince Albrecht of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1863) ·
April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882) ·
April 25 – Gerardo Matos
Rodriguez, Uruguayan composer, journalist and pianist (b. 1897) ·
April 30 – Alfredo
Miguel Aguayo Sánchez, Puerto Rican educator and writer (b. 1866) May[edit] Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington ·
May 2 – Ángel Maria Herrera,
Panamanian educator (b. 1859) ·
May 3 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin
of Minister Ritavuori (b. 1876) ·
May 9 ·
Viola Allen, American actress (b. 1867) ·
Frank Leigh, British actor (b. 1876) ·
May 13 ·
Milan Begović, Yugoslavian writer
(b. 1876) ·
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920) ·
May 15 ·
André Dauchez, French painter (b. 1870) ·
Father Edward J. Flanagan,
Irish-born American Roman Catholic priest, founder of Boys
Town and monsignor (b. 1886) ·
Toyoaki Horiuchi, Japanese general, Class B
war criminal suspect (executed) (b. 1900) ·
May 16 – Muhammad Habibullah,
Indian politician (b. 1869) ·
May 18 – Francisco Alonso, Spanish composer (b. 1887) ·
May 19 – Maximilian Lenz, Austrian painter and
sculptor (b. 1860) ·
May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885) ·
May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-born American writer
and poet (b. 1889) ·
May 26 – Émile Gaston
Chassinat, French egyptologist (b. 1868) ·
May 28 – Unity Mitford, British socialite; friend
of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914) ·
May 29 – Dame May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865) ·
May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874) June[edit] ·
June 1 – José Vianna da Motta,
Portuguese pianist, teacher and composer (b. 1868) ·
June 2 – Viktor Brack, German doctor (b. 1904),
executed by hanging for warcrimes ·
Karl Brandt, German S.S. officer (b. 1904) ·
Rudolf Brandt, German S.S. officer (b. 1909) ·
Karl Gebhardt, German S.S. officer (b. 1897) ·
Waldemar Hoven, German S.S. officer
(b. 1903) ·
Joachim Mrugowsky,
German S.S. officer (b. 1905) ·
Wolfram Sievers, German S.S. officer
(b. 1905) ·
June 6 – Louis Lumière,
French film pioneer (b. 1864) ·
June 8 – Giacomo Albanese, Italian mathematician
(b. 1890) ·
June 13 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909) ·
June 16 – Eugênia Álvaro
Moreyra, Brazilian journalist, actress and director (b. 1898) ·
June 25 ·
Bento de Jesus
Caraça, Portuguese mathematician, economist, statistician
(b. 1901) ·
William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895) ·
June 26 ·
Nasib al-Bitar, Palestine jurist (b. 1890) ·
Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murder)
(b. 1924) ·
June 30 – Prince Sabahaddin (b. 1879) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Assunta Marchetti,
Italian Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed ·
July 4 ·
Albert Bates,
American criminal (b. 1893) ·
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882) ·
July 5 ·
Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888) ·
Charles
Fillmore, American Protestant mystic (b. 1854) ·
Carole Landis, American actress player
(b. 1919) ·
July 9 ·
James Baskett, American actor (Uncle Remus
in Disney's Song of the South)
(b. 1904) ·
Alcibiades Diamandi,
Greek political figure (b. 1893) ·
July 11 ·
King Baggot, American actor (b. 1879) ·
Franz Weidenreich,
German anatomist and physical anthropologist (b. 1873) ·
July 14 ·
Harry Brearley, British inventor of
stainless steel (b. 1871) ·
Marguerite Moreno,
French actress (b. 1871) ·
July 15 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860) ·
July 17 – Ildebrando Zacchini,
Maltese painter, inventor and traveller (b. 1868) ·
July 18 ·
May Moss, Australian women's rights activist
(b. 1869) ·
Baldassarre Negroni,
Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1877) ·
July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Soviet-born painter (b. 1904) ·
July 22 – Sud Mennucci, Brazilian journalist and
educator (b. 1882) ·
July 23 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (The
Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875) ·
July 24 – Pencho Zlatev, Bulgarian general, 25th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1881) ·
July 26 – Antonin Sertillanges,
French Catholic philosopher and spiritual writer (b. 1863) ·
July 27 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1880) ·
July 28 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright
(b. 1882) ·
July 31 – Lucy Mercer
Rutherfurd, mistress of President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (b. 1891) August[edit] ·
August 3 – Tommy Ryan, American boxing champion
(b. 1870) ·
August 7 – Charles Bryant,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
Kan'ichi Asakawa,
Japanese historian (b. 1873) ·
Andrew Brown,
Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870) ·
August 13 – Edwin Maxwell,
Irish actor (b. 1886) ·
August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1895) ·
August 17 – Mariette Rheiner
Garner, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1869) ·
August 18 – Mikhail
Tarkhanov, Soviet actor (b. 1877) ·
August 26 – George Anderson,
American actor (b. 1886) ·
Cissie Cahalan, Irish trade union, feminist
and suffragette (b. 1876) ·
Charles Evans Hughes,
11th Chief
Justice of the United States (b. 1862) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Muhammad VII
al-Munsif, ruler of Tunisia 1942–43 (b. 1881) ·
September 2 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar and
World War I spy (b. 1883) ·
September 3 – Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakian politician,
4th Prime
Minister of Czechoslovakia and 2-time President of
Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) ·
September 5 – Richard C. Tolman,
American mathematical physicist (b. 1881) ·
September 7 – André Suarès,
French poet and critic (b. 1868) ·
September 10 – Ferdinand I of
Bulgaria, Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 1861) ·
September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876) ·
Rupert D'Oyly Carte,
British hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. 1876) ·
Carlo Servolini, Italian artist (b. 1876) ·
September 13 – Paul Wegener, German actor, film director,
and screenwriter; one of the pioneers of German Expressionism (b. 1874) ·
Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and
folklorist (b. 1887) ·
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat
(assassinated) (b. 1895) ·
Emil Ludwig, German-born Swiss historian and
biographer (b. 1881) ·
Raffaele Rossi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, eminence and
servant of God (b. 1876) ·
September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin,
Famous Mahl writer (b. 1881) ·
September 22 – Prince
Adalbert of Prussia (b. 1884) ·
September 24 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894) ·
September 26 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer
(b. 1904) ·
September 27 – Frank Cellier,
British actor (b. 1884) ·
Vasily Kachalov, Soviet actor (b. 1875) ·
Edith Roosevelt, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1861) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Phraya
Manopakorn Nititada, 1st Prime Minister of
Siam (b. 1884) ·
October 2 – Mary Ryan,
American actress (b. 1885) ·
October 4 – Ghulam
Hussain Hidayatullah, Pakistani politician (b. 1879) ·
October 5 – Umberto Coromaldi,
Italian painter (b. 1870) ·
October 10 – Saif Ali Janjua, Pakistani commander
(b. 1922) ·
Susan Sutherland
Isaacs, British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst
(b. 1885) ·
Albert Power,
Australian Roman Catholic and Jesuit priest and reverend (b. 1870) ·
October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (b. 1875) ·
October 14 – Dale Fuller,
American actress (b. 1885) ·
October 15 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863) ·
October 16 – Maria
Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira, Portuguese feminist and
writer (b. 1881) ·
October 18 – Walther von
Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881) ·
October 19 – Mehmet Suphi Kula,
Turkish general (b. 1881) ·
October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress (b. 1904) ·
Guillaume de
Jerphanion, French Jesuit, epigrapher, geographer,
photographer, linguist and archaeologist (b. 1877) ·
Alexander Piorkowski,
German SS officer (b. 1904) ·
William
Royland, British baronet ·
Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870) ·
Peter Murdoch, Australian politician
(b. 1865) ·
October 31 – Mary Nolan, American actress (b. 1905) November[edit] Archduke
Peter Ferdinand of Austria ·
Albert
Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, British-born American businessman
(b. 1874) ·
Filippo Perlo, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and missionary
(b. 1873) ·
November 7 – David Leland,
American actor (b. 1932) ·
November 8 – Archduke
Peter Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1874) ·
November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890) ·
Julius Curtius, German politician and
diplomat (b. 1877) ·
Jack Nelson,
American actor and director (b. 1882) ·
November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874) ·
November 12 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867) ·
November 17 – Oerip Soemohardjo,
Indonesian general (b. 1893) ·
November 21 – Béla Miklós, Hungarian military officer and
politician, 38th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1890) ·
November 23 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1900) ·
November 28 – D. D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873) ·
Maria Koppenhöfer,
German actress (b. 1901) ·
Roberto Omegna, Italian cinematographer and
director (b. 1876) ·
November 30 – Franco Vittadini, Italian composer (b. 1884) December[edit] ·
Jan
Hendrik Hofmeyr, South African politician (b. 1894) ·
Luis Orrego Luco, Chilean politician,
lawyer, novelist and diplomat (b. 1866) ·
Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915) ·
December 8 – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician
(b. 1866) ·
December 15 – João Tamagnini
Barbosa, Portuguese military officer and politician, 69th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1883) ·
December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863) ·
December 23 – Japanese war leaders
(hanged): ·
Kenji Doihara, general (b. 1883) ·
Kōki Hirota, diplomat and politician,
32nd Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1878) ·
Seishirō
Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885) ·
Heitarō Kimura,
general (b. 1888) ·
Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878) ·
Akira Mutō, general (b. 1892) ·
Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1884) ·
December 26 – John Westley,
American actor (b. 1878) ·
Muhammad
Saleh Akbar Hydari, Indian civil servant and politician (b. 1894) ·
Mahmoud
an-Nukrashi Pasha, Egyptian political figure, 27th Prime Minister of
Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1888) ·
December 29 – Guido
Di Ruggiero, Italian philosopher, professor and politician
(b. 1888) ·
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water
racer (b. 1885) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Patrick
Maynard Stuart Blackett ·
Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller ·
Peace –
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